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Texas has become the latest country to strengthen a ban on land purchases and property by individuals or entities from hostilities.
Republican Greg Abbott The Senate Law 17 in the law was signed during the weekend, and the prohibition of countries that have been determined as security threats in assessing the annual threat to the Intelligence Society for the year 2025, from obtaining “real estate property” in the state. Countries include China, Russia and Iran and north korea, The draft law defines “real estate property” as agricultural lands or commercial or industrial property, residential property and lands used in mining or water use.
Amid growing global tensions, there was an increased appetite for the protection of foreign asset acquisitions in the United States. However, some have criticized these efforts for being wide, arbitrary and perhaps discriminatory.
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Republican ruler Greg Abbott signed a draft Senate Law 17 in the law during the weekend, and the prohibition of countries that have been determined as security threats in assessing the annual threat of 2025 of the intelligence community, from obtaining “real estate property” in the state. (Getty Images)
In response to Abbott’s signature on SB 17, the non -profit Asian Americans said that he was “angry” from the legislation that the group said “creates a very wide network that puts innocent foreign citizens at risk of racist stereotypes.”
A similar defense was established by the governor of Arizona Katie Hobbes After it objected to a draft law seeking to stop the purchases of Chinese land and property in the state, noting that the draft law lacks “clear implementation standards”, which opened the door to “arbitrary enforcement”. Hobbes described, after a violent reaction to the veto (the veto (the veto (the veto, later described the bill as a “draft of reduced law and the weakness of China,” noting that it allowed the Communist country to buy lands near military bases for up to three years at one time, and follow this month in its own version of the bill.
The Texas Bill exemptes American citizens and permanent legal residents. Individuals who are legally residing in the United States who want to purchase exempt primary residence as well, as well as tenants under the age of age.
The Prosecutor of Texas declares through the new legislation to investigate the possible violations of the new law, which will be a felony. The law will enter into force on September 1.
From the left to the right, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khawni, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un. (Getty Images)
Supporters of measures such as those in Texas pointed to efforts by countries like China to buy land and property near the main United States Military bases. However, it is not just a land, it is also assets.
China has a powerful foothold in the United States with many law enforcement agencies using Chinese DJI aircraft. The country has also faced a scrutiny to build solar transformers in the United States, which can be used for espionage efforts, increasing its mark in US sea ports and hacking other critical infrastructure.
The Texas draft law follows a high -level incident earlier this month when two Chinese citizens were arrested for trying to smuggle dangerous biological diseases to the United States.
“Chinese companies that buy American territory, especially near sensitive strategic and military sites, are strictly trying to adopt espionage efforts, and perhaps worse than that, in our backyard, and the matter is due to a mission to develop the state,” said Michael Loki, CEO and employee in the field of work, which is a group of the United States, a group of countries that behave that the countries that behave.
“The ruler Abbott and the Legislative Authority in Texas have the right to ban foreign opponents to buy lands in their state. More and more states must follow their progress.”
Twenty -five draft laws that restrict foreign property ownership approved from Monday, June 23, 2025. (Mark Schiesfelbein/Pool via Reuters/File Image)
For each committee 100, which tracks federal and state laws in the United States that restrict property ownership by foreign entities, 25 states have approved bills that restrict foreign property ownership from Monday. This increases from 22 states recently in March, for all the committee. At the same time, according to the follow -up of the committee, 15 draft laws relate to this issue The federal level is considered also.
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on monday, Republicans in Congress It submitted a draft law aimed at increasing the supervision of the purchases of foreign agricultural lands, which will add the US Minister of Agriculture to the Foreign Investment Committee in the United States (CFIUS). It will also force the US Department of Agriculture to submit reports to CFIUS, that is, the purchase of local agricultural lands by foreign opponents who are risks to national security.
Bill bills appear at the state level that aims to increase scrutiny of foreign acquisitions and assets of enemies and an imminent in New Hampshire and North Carolina, if their rulers grant them their approval.
